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Below are summaries of Bills Introduced, Committee Reports, Chamber Actions, and Public Laws reported in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update. For previous summaries, visit the Federal Bills Archive.

would improve NOAA's weather research through a focused program of investment on affordable and attainable advances in observational, computing, and modeling capabilities in order to support substantial improvement in weather forecasting and prediction of high impact weather events, and to expand commercial opportunities for the provision of weather data.

would stop implementation and enforcement of the Forest Service travel management rule and require the Forest Service and BLM to incorporate the needs, uses, and input of affected communities and to obtain their consent before taking any travel management action affecting access to National Forest System lands derived from the public domain or public lands.

would authorize Escambia County, Florida, to convey property that was formerly part of Santa Rosa Island National Monument and was conveyed to Escambia County subject to restrictions on use and reconveyance.

would prohibit net increases in the acres of land under the jurisdiction of BLM, the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Forest Service unless the federal budget is balanced for the year in which the land would be purchased.

would amend FIFRA to allow the marketing, distribution, and sale of solid antimicrobial copper alloys with certain claims, and would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exclude certain solid antimicrobial copper alloys from regulation as drugs or devices.

would authorize Escambia County, Florida, to convey property that was formerly part of Santa Rosa Island National Monument and that was conveyed to Escambia County subject to restrictions on use and reconveyance.

would authorize EPA to establish a program of awarding grants to owners or operators of water systems in order to increase the resiliency or adaptability of the systems to any ongoing or forecasted changes to the hydrologic conditions of a region.